Note 195 — Chapter IV · NOMADISM AND AGRICULTURE.

It should be noted that from Ibn Dureyd, Kitâb al-ishtiḳâḳ, p. 96. II, it is evidently possible that in such compounds the word ʿabd itself may belong to the idol; he writes wa-ʿabdu shamsin zaʿamû ṣanamun wa-ḳâla ḳaumun bal ʿaynu mâin maʿrufatun wa-hua ismun ḳadîmun: ‘ʿAbd Shams is in the opinion of some an idol, others say it is the name of a well-known spring of water: it is an old name.’